Sure it’s great to be an Emmy Award-winning producer and writer for a legendary television show, but Mike Reiss, who has worked for years on The Simpsons is prepared to tell students at Weber State University today about the other half of that equation. While he was the executive producer and head of the classic animated Fox series during seasons three and four, “I worked 80 to 100 hours a week, 51 weeks a year. It nearly killed me,” he said. “That’s why I ran the show for only two years and that’s why people only do it for two or three years.” At the end of the fourth season, Reiss visited his doctor and learned he gained 70 pounds while he was head of the series. “My doctor said, ‘You’re morbidly obese. Do you know what that is?'” Reiss remembered. “I said, ‘That’s what Homer is.'” Read More >>>
With Mike Reiss in the spotlight at the moment, The State News have also posted an article about him and The Simpsons.